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...peacetime year. Many a prosperous company upped its-dividend, e.g., Du Pont from $1.25 to $2 and International Harvester from 65? to $1. Despite the worst freight-car shortage in 20 years, Barren's latest Weekly Production Index held at 117, within one point of the postwar peak...
...Emerson Radio likewise took a dim view of the size of the market. In the first big break in radio prices, it reduced the price 20% on its leading portable model. There was little doubt that department-store buying, which had lagged since Christmas, was well down from the peak. Last week's sales were only 9-13% in dollar volume above those of a year ago. Counting the price rise in a year, current unit sales are probably below last year...
Unless economy-minded Congress forces a cut in military plane orders, Dutch Kindelberger hopes to have his peacetime eagle full grown by year's end, with 14,000 employees on the payroll. (Wartime peak in the West Coast plant: 24,000.) By then, he also hopes, his bird will be paying for its keep...
Moving in on Pompet airfield at the start of 1944, we had little but curiosity toward the smoking peak which rose up 3000 feet above us and six miles away. The fact that our field was on a cinder bed and that the ancient city of Pompet next door had once been completely in-undated seemed to have no connection with the spluttering little furnace that attracted sightseers to the top of Vesuvius...
Selected from among almost 1,300 applicants, a first term class of 300 members has swollen enrollment at the School of Business Administration to an all time peak of 1559. The current entering class is the fourth largest since the resumption of civilian instruction in February...